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MK121
(Paperback)
Chris Ridgeon
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R366
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Set in the early 22nd century, MK121 is a tale of political
intrigue, corruption, human relationships and action of a kind
usually reserved for the realms of science fantasy, but set against
a believable background based on past, current and potential future
developments. Drake Featherstone is the captain of a space cruiser,
the MK121, which is part of the Earth's protection arm, Space
Force. Tasked with what initially appears to be a rescue of
personnel from an Earth outpost, he and his crew soon discover that
all is not what they expected. Meantime, the bulk of the Space
Force fleet has been despatched to reclaim an Earth protectorate
planet from an aggressive alien empire leaving Earth defenceless
and potentially at the mercy of politically motivated forces.
Interlaced in the story is the relationship between Featherstone
and his first officer, Rachenda Lindberg. Having rescued the
beleaguered personnel from the damaged outpost, matters twist and
turn until the full truth of why the mission was necessary emerges
and the consequences of the despatch of the fleet become obvious.
The climax to the story is both dramatic and unexpected.
The year is 2349. Pirate Ben Long and crew face trouble. Chased by
the Space Navy, they fall through a black hole. Their ship Lion
survives, piloted by Sugar, Ben's android, but in a new dimension
adventures crowd them. They rescue Terri, an alien warrior in an
escape pod and go to her planet Xenaria. Bugs have taken control of
it. With Terri driven by revenge, she, Ben, Sugar and Ahmad, Lion's
First Lieutenant, land to fight. Captured by bugs, they escape,
steal an enemy ship and head back to Lion only to find her
hijacked. When they recover the ship, Sugar and Terri duel over
Ben. Then it's on to a meeting with bugs - and an unforeseeable
proposal. More surprises follow -
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Big Brother is Watching You.' Winston Smith
rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record
Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party,
and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania. But
the notebook he's begun to write in is against the rules - in fact,
the Thought Police could arrest him simply for having it. Despite
the danger, a seed of rebellion has begun to grow in Winston's
heart - one that could have devastating consequences. In George
Orwell's final novel, he explores a dystopian future in which a
totalitarian government controls the actions, thoughts and even
emotions of its citizens. Its lasting popularity is testament to
Orwell's powerful prose, and is a passionate warning for today.
THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER. With supply in the Scottish
cities drying up, Aida is forced back home to live with her mum at
their rural farm. For now, they are safe with just enough to get
by. Yet at the border, tensions are close to breaking point as more
and more southerners chase the delusion that Scotland is an eternal
spring - while fewer and fewer are allowed through. The service
station where Aida works grows emptier with every day. Then, when
suspicious strangers arrive at the farm asking for help, Aida and
her family face a terrible decision. How much water can they afford
to share? AND THEN THE TAPS ARE TURNED OFF. Now they must survive
long enough for the rain to come. Completely compelling,
devastating and thought-provoking, Thirsty Animals takes us on a
captivating journey of survival and self-discovery.
'This is the one true star-map,' he whispered. 'Time fluctuates
wildly beyond our solar system. Everything we know about distance
is wrong.' Quiet Pine Trees is jet fuel for your imagination, a
wrecking ball against writer's block. This collection features more
than 500 enchanting microfiction stories, each one a miniature work
of literary art. Using just a few words, these stories combine
powerful imagery with compelling, high-concept themes to create
snapshots of bigger, stranger worlds and inspire the reader. The
stories in this volume span genres and galaxies alike: from science
fiction about advanced time travel techniques and lovestruck
androids, to fantasy about the best ways to wish and trees that
long to speak, to chilling tales about dolls' eyes and the horror
that awaits humanity between the stars.
The new leaders of America and Russia are deeply suspicious of each
other. A bomb goes off in a holy city. International tension
mounts. and World War Three breaks out. As destruction rains down
on the Earth, scientists come up with a plan to save something of
the human race before the world is destroyed for ever by nuclear
war. Two individuals, Adam and Eve, are chosen to go into suspended
animation for nearly two hundred years. Eventually they wake up and
find a small group of humans still alive. they try to teach these
humans how best to survive the hostile environment on this new and
dangerous Earth. Using their special skills, Adam and Eve win a
battle with an alien race of androids, but they don't live for
ever. What will happen to the remaining humans without their help?
Is there any hope for the future of the Earth? The author gives us
a fascinating glimpse of the future a century, a millennium,
several millennia from now. But this colourful book is as much for
those who love an exciting adventure story as for fans of science
fiction.
Collected by the editor of the award-winning Lightspeed magazine,
the first, definitive anthology of climate fiction-a cutting-edge
genre made popular by Margaret Atwood. Is it the end of the world
as we know it? Climate Fiction, or Cli-Fi, is exploring the world
we live in now-and in the very near future-as the effects of global
warming become more evident. Join bestselling, award-winning
writers like Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley
Robinson, Seanan McGuire, and many others at the brink of tomorrow.
Loosed Upon the World is so believable, it's frightening.
This collection of short stories, set entirely in the future, takes
in everything from robot politicians to time travelling students
and plenty of creatures that I would be unable to describe fully in
this small space, some of them human. Some stories are allegorical,
some are political whilst others are simply quick yarns. The
stories here also fit a particular time line of events; so whilst
you don't need to read all of the stories in order to understand
each individual story, most of the tales are all interconnected by
a certain history of events. The influence of the Venusian War, the
advancement of robot spies and the importance of the Sphere should
hopefully become clear in a few hours!
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Tender Is the Flesh
(Paperback)
Agustina Bazterrica; Translated by Sarah Moses
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The New York Times bestselling series based on the blockbuster
video game for Xbox!It is 2555, more than two years after the
Master Chief went missing-in-action following a decisive conflict
on Installation 00--the massive, extragalactic Forerunner construct
known as the Ark--as part of the final chapter in humanity's bloody
thirty-year struggle against the overwhelming forces of the
Covenant. Now, as a tenuous peace exists between the humans and the
Elites, a startling scientific discovery is made...and the riddle
behind its Forerunner origins could very well seal the fate of the
entire galaxy within a matter of weeks. In order to unravel these
dangerous secrets, a heroic, hastily formed coalition of humans and
Elites must attempt to overcome their differences as they embark on
a covert mission back to the Ark--an astonishing, enigmatic place
beyond comprehension from which few have returned and where mortal
danger awaits them all...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. 'There are things in that wallpaper
that nobody knows about but me, or ever will' Hailed as one of the
most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is praised today for her ground-breaking,
feminist writing. Collected here, both The Yellow Wallpaper and
Herland are extraordinary for scrutinising the patriarchal norms of
turn-of-the-century America. In The Yellow Wallpaper a woman
frantically paces the empty nursery at the top of a secluded
mansion. Her husband John, a physician, is of no comfort and she
can't bear to sit with the new baby as his crying makes her much
too nervous. And then there's the putrid, yellow wallpaper which
seems to shift and creep around the room before her very eyes...
Herland, first published in 1915, follows a group of three men as
they arrive in a female-only society. Peace and tranquillity thrive
in this utopian land, forcing the explorers to question how their
own corrupted, male-dominated world can survive.
CRAIGS' LEGACY She's from the twenty-first century... Thrust back
in time, Frankie Mathews is the quintessential fish out of water.
She's gone from running a major money market fund to a world where
women milk cows. Too bad for Frankie that the nearest she's ever
been to a cow is a "Got Milk" commercial. Now, she has to save the
life of Confederate Colonel Benjamin Craig and return to her own
century with him in tow, before she changes history beyond
recognition-and gets killed in the process. He's been fighting the
Civil War in 1864... To survive the Union deserters and his
grasping, widowed sister-in-law, Ben needs Frankie's quick thinking
and never-give-up attitude that comes from her independence as a
21st Century woman. But can the two lovers span the centuries
between them and find a common future?
Discover a dozen exciting inserts inspired by Star Wars: Galaxy's
Edge! Full of treasures from Black Spire Outpost, this kit offers
unique items inspired by Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. Learn about
Batuu's secrets and locales-from Oga's Cantina to Savi's
Workshop-and gather one-of-a-kind items along the way, including
high- quality stickers, keychains, and a collectible button. An
essential addition to your Star Wars collection, this kit will
transport you to the exciting world of Batuu!
Stunning psychic science thriller by the bestselling author of
X-Files: Ground Zero and X-Files: Ruins. Atlas is a struggling
colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by
Truthsayers. Trained from birth as the sole users of Veritas - a
telepathy virus that lets them read the souls of the guilty -
Truthsayers are justice. Infallible. Beyond appeal. Troy Boren is
falsely accused of murder. He put his trust in the young Truthsayer
Kalliana, until, impossibly, she convicts him. Her power is fading
and nobody can work it out. A conspiracy is taking place that
threatens to destroy their world from within. For without truth and
justice, Atlas will certainly fall.
They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now
they are Dr. Rachel Dycek's adin: surgically transformed beings who
can survive new lives on the surface of Mars. But they are still
exiles, unable ever again to breath Earth's air . . . And they are
still pawns. For the adin exist to terraform Mars for human
colonists, not for themselves. Creating a new Earth, they will
destroy their world; killed by their own success. Desperate, adin
leader Boris Tiban launches a suicide campaign to sabotage the Mars
Project, knowing his people will perish in a glorious, doomed orgy
of mayhem. Unless embattled, bitter Rachel Dycek can find a miracle
to save both the Mars Project and the race she created.
IT IS THE FUTURE - AND THE DEAD WALK THE STREETS. Resurrection,
Inc. found a profitable way to do it. All it took was a
microprocessor brain, a synthetic heart and blood, and a viola!
Anyone with the price could buy a Servant with no mind of its own
and trained to obey any command. But for every Servant created,
Resurrection, Inc.'s profits became everyone's else's loss. Some
take to rioting in the streets, their rampages ruthlessly ended by
heavily armed Enforcers, eager for the kill. Others join the ever
growing cult of Neo-Satanism, seeking heaven in the depths of hell.
Only one man tries to save the world. He is the last hope for the
living. His name is Danal, he's dead - but he remembers.
Everything.
Isaac Asimov's Robot series - from the iconic collection I, Robot
to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential
works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing
the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the
understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day.
Could a robot ever show true creativity? Is it wise to trust
self-driving cars? Will robotic body parts transform human beings
into machines? Will organic technology allow robots to become
human? The Complete Robot combines the stories in I, Robot and The
Rest of the Robots with many more found only in this collection -
including one of Asimov's masterpieces, the Hugo and Nebula
award-winning novella 'The Bicentennial Man'. Featuring Dr. Susan
Calvin, Donovan and Powell, and the detective Elijah Baley, hero of
the Robot novels, this is the ultimate collection of short stories
from a genius of the genre.
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Ten Planets
(Paperback)
Yuri Herrera; Translated by Lisa Dillman
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The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's first collection of
stories inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and
instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and
the philosophical parables of Borges's Fictions and Calvino's
Cosmicomics, these very short stories signal a new dimension in the
work of this significant writer. In Ten Planets, objects can be
sentient and might rebel against the unhappy human family to which
they are attached. A detective of sorts finds clues to buried
secrets by studying the noses of his clients, which he insists are
covert maps. A meagre bacterium in a human intestine gains
consciousness when a psychotropic drug is ingested. Monsters and
aliens abound, but in the fiction of Herrera, knowing who is the
monster and who the alien is a tricky proposition. This collection
of stories, with a breadth that ranges from philosophical flights
of fancy to the gritty detective story, leaves us with a sense of
awe at our world and the worlds beyond our ken, while Herrera
continues to develop his exploration of the mutability of borders,
the wounds and legacy of colonial violence, and a deep love of
storytelling in all its forms.
A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo
universe-based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!
2526. It has been more than a year since humanity first encountered
the hostile military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant,
and several weeks after the United Nations Space Command's
devastating counterattack of Operation: SILENT STORM was deemed an
overwhelming success. The UNSC has put its faith in the hands of
the Spartans, led by the legendary Master Chief, John-117: enhanced
super-soldiers raised and trained from childhood via a clandestine
black ops project to be living weapons. But the Covenant-enraged
and fearful of their enemy's unexpected strategies and prowess-is
not taking its recent defeat lightly, and is now fully determined
to eradicate humanity from existence, brutally overrunning the
ill-fated planets of the Outer Colonies faster than retreats can be
ordered. If the UNSC has any chance of stemming the tide of the
war, the Master Chief and Blue Team must drop onto an empty,
hellish world in order to capture a disabled Covenant frigate
filled with valuable technology. It has all the makings of a trap,
but the bait is far too tempting to ignore-and this tantalizing
prize is being offered by a disgraced and vengeful Covenant
fleetmaster, whose sole opportunity for redemption lies in
extinguishing humanity's only hope of survival...
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